Overview
- Cambodia’s defence ministry alleges Thai fighter jets dropped up to 40 bombs on Chok Chey in Banteay Meanchey between 6:08am and 7:15am local time.
- Thai media report Cambodian forces carried out heavy overnight shelling in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province that damaged several homes.
- Officials from both countries are holding multi-day negotiations at a border checkpoint, with defence ministers slated to meet next.
- Official tallies put deaths above 40 and displacement around one million as fighting spreads across the frontier and includes artillery, rockets, drones and reported airpower.
- Both governments blame each other and claim self-defence, while Cambodia says Prime Minister Hun Manet discussed ceasefire efforts by phone with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and mediators seek to revive a truce that previously collapsed.